Cardinal closing ends jobs for 115

Cardinal Health plans to close its Findlay, Ohio, distribution center in April, a move that will put about 115 employees out of work, the company said yesterday.

Cardinal Health plans to close its Findlay, Ohio, distribution center in April, a move that will put about 115 employees out of work, the company said yesterday.

Cardinal, based in Dublin, said the move is in response to a decrease in the capacity it needs in its nationwide distribution network. The work from Findlay will be transferred to similar centers in Wheeling, W.V., and Aurora, Ill., spokesman Troy Kirkpatrick said.

"We have made the difficult decision that we are going to be closing that facility," he said.

Cardinal built the Findlay site and opened it in 2004. Since then, Cardinal has changed its business model to do less bulk warehousing of drugs and more just-in-time delivery, Kirkpatrick said. That means the company doesn't need as much warehouse space.

The decision regarding the Findlay location will have no effect on Cardinal's central Ohio operations, he said.

Cardinal has about 30,000 employees worldwide, including 4,500 in Ohio.

At most, a dozen employees from Findlay might be offered jobs at other locations. The workers who are losing their jobs will get severance packages based on their duration of service.